Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan crossed the Tianhe Ice Plain toward Yinhai City and encountered a powerful Water Demon that ambushed him. He killed it with the Eternal Heart Awl, and Xiao Mu explained that Li Yuan’s strength and talent in the Heart-Artifact Dao made the ultimate art especially suited to him.

• Li Yuan flew through the Tianhe Ice Plain toward Yinhai City while Xiao Mu warned him about the Inner Domain’s dangers.
• Li Yuan spotted a Water Demon in the heavenly river, avoided it, and continued onward.
• A Path-Opening Water Demon ambushed Li Yuan by shattering the space around him and trying to swallow him.
• Li Yuan used Heaven and Earth Unity, the Golden Sea Pearl, and Ten Thousand Star River to suppress the Water Demon.
• Li Yuan struck the Water Demon with Eternal Heart Awl through the Soul-Splitting Shuttle and killed it instantly.
• Xiao Mu explained that the Water Demon’s weak will made it vulnerable and praised Li Yuan’s potential in the Heart-Artifact Dao.

Li Yuan reached the End of Tianhe and entered the Endless Abyss, relying on his God Emperor authority to withstand its deadly storm. There he encountered God King Lieyan, who attacked him, while God King Yuqiu watched from nearby.

• Li Yuan finished killing the Water Demon, took its Life Crystal, and fled before more Water Demons arrived to avenge it.
• After avoiding demons on his journey, Li Yuan reached the End of Tianhe and entered the Endless Abyss, where Xiao Mu said his God Emperor authority would weaken the Abyss Storm’s threat.
• God King Lieyan recognized Li Yuan in the abyss and charged at him, seeking to kill him for the Abyss Divine Court.
• Li Yuan combined his domain techniques to overwhelm Lieyan’s fire-lotus domain, while God King Yuqiu appeared nearby and watched.
• Lieyan unleashed an ultimate-art burst, enlarged his body, and charged at Li Yuan; Li Yuan drew his Silver Moon God Spear and thrust at him.

Li Yuan fought God King Lieyan in the Endless Abyss, revealing strength that could contend with a Two-Step God King and enduring Lieyan’s assault. When Abyss Suction erupted, Li Yuan trapped Lieyan with a soul attack and chose to risk both their lives rather than let him escape.

• Li Yuan’s opening spear strike forced God King Lieyan back, but Lieyan gained the advantage in their rematch as Li Yuan assessed the limits of his power.
• God King Yuqiu spread news of the battle, and Li Yuan’s fellow God Kings watched a projection showing him withstand Lieyan for a thousand exchanges.
• Following Xiao Mu’s plan, Li Yuan feigned mistakes and weakness, drawing Lieyan deeper into the Endless Abyss while Yuqiu stayed near the safe boundary.
• When Abyss Suction erupted, Lieyan fled upward, but Li Yuan used the Soul-Splitting Shuttle and the Emperor Realm Ultimate Art Eternal Heart Awl to attack Lieyan’s soul and slow him down.
• Li Yuan attacked Lieyan again and declared that they would die together, leaving their fate unresolved as Abyss Suction intensified.

Li Yuan lured God King Lieyan into the Endless Abyss, where an Abyss Storm killed Lieyan’s true body while the Cosmic River Token’s authority let Li Yuan pass safely through the storm. Li Yuan revealed to God King Dongmang and the others that he had survived and taken Lieyan’s treasures.

• Li Yuan repeatedly struck God King Lieyan’s soul with the Soul-Splitting Shuttle, rejected Lieyan’s offers, and forced him into a desperate fight as the abyssal suction pulled them down.
• God King Yuqiu watched Li Yuan and God King Lieyan disappear into the abyss, believing both had perished.
• Xiao Mu told Li Yuan that he had secretly triggered the abyssal devouring and that the Cosmic River Token’s authority would protect him; Li Yuan then passed safely through the Abyss Storm.
• The Abyss Storm battered God King Lieyan until his true body and consciousness were destroyed, while Li Yuan continued toward Yinhai City.
• The major factions concluded that Li Yuan had fallen with Lieyan, but Li Yuan appeared before God King Dongmang, God King Xinjie, and the other God Kings and announced that he was alive and had taken Lieyan’s treasures.

After Li Yuan survived the Endless Abyss and God King Lieyan was presumed dead, the Chaos Divine Court learned of Li Yuan’s strength while the Abyss Divine Court debated whether he might still be alive. Li Yuan reached Yinhai City, where Xiao Mu explained the power of the Galaxy Nine Heavens Array, but Li Yuan remained trapped outside the Divine Temple doors.

• Li Yuan showed the gathered Chaos Divine Court God Kings the battle projection, and they were shocked by his strength and agreed to keep his survival secret.
• God King Yinhuo and others doubted that Li Yuan had died, so God Monarch Moyun ordered the Abyss Divine Court to wait for the passage out of Beichen Star to open; God King Hongjiu also urged them to hunt for God King Dongmang.
• Li Yuan examined the treasures that had fallen from God King Lieyan, chose not to erase their life imprints, and devoted himself to cultivation at the bottom of the Endless Abyss.
• Xiao Mu told Li Yuan that he had been drawn into Yinhai City, the power source of the Galaxy Nine Heavens Array, and that entering the Divine Temple could let him control part of the array.
• Li Yuan remained unable to open the Divine Temple doors, and Xiao Mu told him he had to understand the temple’s workings and push them open himself.

Li Yuan discovered that he had to comprehend the Divine Temple’s mysteries to leave Yinhai City before Beichen Star’s passage closed, so he began studying the World Dao with his Three True Bodies. As he continued cultivating, God King Dongmang escaped the Abyss Divine Court’s pursuit but remained poisoned, while Fang Hai’s breakthrough to Celestial God brought Li Yuan’s old acquaintances into the story.

• Xiao Mu told Li Yuan that he could not leave Yinhai City without refining its core restrictions, and that missing the passage’s closure would trap him for two million years.
• Li Yuan tried striking the Divine Temple, learned that it was part of an Emperor Weapon, and began observing it while planning to study the World Dao through his Inner Cosmic Realm, the Ancient Cosmic Realm, and the All Saints Stone Wall.
• God King Dongmang escaped eight Abyss Divine Court God Kings with a Realm-Escaping Talisman Treasure, but the Heavenly Witch Poison still let God King Hongjiu track him.
• God King Dongmang explained his poison to Li Yuan and God King Xinjie, then handed his treasures to God King Xinjie for safekeeping as Li Yuan resolved to reach the Divine Temple and help him.
• Li Yuan learned that Fang Hai had become a Celestial God and sent an incarnation to see him.
• On Dongji Star, Lin Lanyue learned that Fang Hai’s breakthrough made him the fourth Celestial God of the Seven Star Civilization.

Li Yuan celebrated Fang Hai’s rise to the Celestial God Realm, taught the Seven Star lineage, and gave Fang Hai, Liu Bing, and Dongfang Ji powerful ultimate arts. As God King Dongmang faced danger inside Beichen Star, Li Yuan’s cultivation advanced toward Dao Opening, leaving him ready to open the Divine Temple’s doors.

• Seven Star lineage powerhouses gathered on Dongji Star to celebrate Fang Hai becoming a Celestial God, and Li Yuan welcomed them before delivering a sermon.
• Li Yuan explained that the eight great laws were interconnected and that he was following the path of Dao Opening.
• Li Yuan gave Fang Hai, Liu Bing, and Dongfang Ji Emperor Realm Ultimate Arts after they swore oaths to keep the inheritance secret.
• The Abyss Divine Court revealed that the injured God King Dongmang carried a Rusheng Buzha Fruit, prompting God Kings to hunt for him inside Beichen Star.
• Li Yuan’s three true bodies manifested worlds and their cycles, and he realized he had grasped the embryonic form of a Dao and could open the Divine Temple’s doors.

Li Yuan formed the rudiment of the Top-tier Eternal World Dao, refined a Silver Throne in Yinhai Hall, and prepared to grow stronger before confronting the Abyss Divine Court. Meanwhile, God King Xiehai revealed that his search for Dongmang was a feint and that he planned to attack God King Xinjie.

• Li Yuan realized he had formed the rudiment of the World Dao, and Xiao Mu explained how it made his realm comparable to that of a Two-Step God King.
• Xiao Mu told Li Yuan that opening a Dao could transform a cultivator’s divine body, and Li Yuan learned why a Celestial God’s Godhead could still evolve its Dao after opening it.
• Li Yuan opened the Divine Temple and tried to refine its Purple and Gold Thrones, but the restrictions overwhelmed him, so he successfully refined a Silver Throne instead.
• Li Yuan sensed that the Galaxy Nine Heavens Array covered Beichen Star’s origin-affected area and resolved to use its power against the Abyss Divine Court while training in the Indestructible Body.
• On Nine Suns Island, God King Xiehai told God King Chenxie and God King Hongjiu that their search for Dongmang was a diversion and that they would move against God King Xinjie.

Li Yuan mastered the second form of Heaven and Earth Unity, World Manifestation, then rushed to rescue God King Xinjie after five God Kings ambushed her in the Star Sea. He arrived as the attackers battered Xinjie’s body and her triangular-prism crystal cracked.

• Li Yuan mastered World Manifestation and considered how it could strengthen his defenses while he continued studying Indestructible Body.
• God King Chenmo and four allies lured God King Xinjie into a trap in the Star Sea and attacked her.
• God King Xinjie fled into a star, hoping its dangerous passages and Crystal Beasts might help her escape while she hid the Gansheng Undying Fruit.
• Li Yuan learned that Xinjie was under attack and promised to reach her within fifteen minutes, surprising the other God Kings.
• Li Yuan used Yinhai City’s Teleportation Array and his World Domain to race through the Star Sea toward Xinjie.
• God King Chenmo repeatedly struck Xinjie as the five attackers surrounded her, and her triangular-prism crystal became covered in cracks.

God King Xinjie was overwhelmed by five God Kings until Li Zhang arrived and revealed his newly opened Star Dao and immense strength. Li Zhang fought all five at once without falling behind, leaving the battle unresolved.

• God King Xinjie trapped four God Kings in his Mind Realm with the Divine Mirror, but God King Anhai's domain and the others' combined attacks broke the realm and damaged the mirror.
• God King Xinjie used Undying Light to withstand the four God Kings, but God King Hongjiu deduced the technique's limits, and Xinjie weakened as her Void Realm Power ran out.
• As God King Yinhong's great seal threatened to kill Xinjie, Li Zhang arrived, shattered God King Anhai's domain, and shielded Xinjie with his World Domain.
• Li Zhang clashed evenly with God King Chenmo, and God King Anhai recognized that Li Zhang had opened the Top-tier Eternal Star Dao.
• The five God Kings attacked Li Zhang together, but he fought back with the Silver Moon God Spear and forced God Kings Yinhong and Anhai back without losing ground.

Li Yuan and God King Xinjie fought the five Abyss Divine Court God Kings, killing God King Hongjiu at the cost of Xinjie's true body. Li Yuan then activated the Nine Heavens Galaxy Array, killed God King Anhai, and pursued the fleeing God King Chenmo, God King Yinhong, and God King Yinghuan.

• Li Yuan used the World Dao and his secret arts to suppress the five God Kings, while God King Hongjiu's fate techniques failed to restrain him.
• God King Xinjie rejoined the battle and trapped the five God Kings in the Xinjie Space, allowing Li Yuan to attack God King Hongjiu directly.
• God King Xinjie burned her life origin to weaken God King Hongjiu, and Li Yuan destroyed Hongjiu's soul and killed him with his spear.
• God King Xinjie's true body was lost, but she transferred her treasures to Li Yuan before the Xinjie Space collapsed; Li Yuan refused God King Chenmo's call to end the fight.
• Li Yuan secretly activated the Nine Heavens Galaxy Array and killed God King Anhai with one spear strike.
• God King Chenmo, God King Yinhong, and God King Yinghuan fled as Li Yuan expanded his World Domain and pursued them.

Li Yuan activated the Emperor Array and used his World Manifestation to overwhelm five God Kings, killing four before letting God King Chenmo escape. News of the battle spread across the Divine Domain, establishing God King Xinyuan as a Peak God King and astonishing every faction.

• Li Yuan's Emperor Array transformed his World Manifestation into a vast domain that trapped and attacked God Kings Chenmo, Yinhong, and Yinghuan.
• God King Chenmo unleashed his Abyss Blood Domain, but Li Yuan's Dao Will Lotus dispersed its resentment and his World Body wounded Chenmo.
• Li Yuan's World Dao evolved under the Emperor Array's enhancement as his attacks destroyed Yinghuan's avatars and killed God King Yinghuan.
• Li Yuan continued battling Chenmo while his World Domain crushed God King Yinhong, leaving Chenmo as the only surviving enemy.
• Li Yuan let Chenmo go, escaped into the Star Sea, and vowed to defeat him next time; Chenmo then withdrew as news spread that Xinyuan had slain four of five God Kings.

The God Kings of the Divine Domain reacted to Li Yuan’s victory, while the Abyss Divine Court and Ziwu factions reconsidered opposing him. At a Chaos Divine Court meeting, Li Yuan revealed that his Peak God King strength on Beichen Star came from an array and pushed for a costly settlement with Ziwu before proposing that the God King War continue.

• The Abyss Divine Court’s God Kings debated whether Li Yuan’s power came from Beichen Star’s array, then ordered their remaining forces to avoid further conflict and protect their Gansheng Undying Fruit.
• The Wandao Divine Court praised God King Xueyan for reconciling with Li Yuan, while the Starry Sky Divine Court regretted refusing to join the war and ranked Li Yuan tenth among God Kings.
• Five of the six Ziwu factions abandoned their plans to oppose Li Yuan, and God King Jinhe agreed to pay compensation; meanwhile, God Monarch Ganyu comprehended the Law of Space and learned that Li Yuan had killed four God Kings.
• Li Yuan told the Chaos Divine Court’s God Kings that his Peak God King strength on Beichen Star depended on an array, and said he intended to keep fighting the Abyss Divine Court and Ziwu factions.
• God King Dongmang revealed that Li Yuan had rejected the Heavenly Dragon Divine Court’s offer to join the war and demanded one hundred thousand cubic Eternal Crystals from Ziwu, with half going to Li Yuan and half to the Divine Court.
• The Chaos Divine Court’s God Kings voided Li Yuan’s oath to surrender half his Beichen Star gains, and God King Dongmang proposed making him the next leader of Juexing Emperor Palace.

Li Yuan was named the next leader of Juexing Emperor Palace and learned about the responsibilities and authority of the role. He found the antidote to God King Dongmang’s poison, helped restore him, and continued cultivating until his World Dao finally changed.

• God King Dongmang announced that Li Yuan would become leader of Juexing Emperor Palace after Beichen Star closed, and the palace’s God Kings supported the decision.
• Dongmang explained the palace leader’s duties and benefits, including leading the palace’s God Kings, protecting its interests, and receiving authority and a stipend.
• While cultivating on Beichen Star, Li Yuan found the antidote to Heavenly Witch Poison in God King Hongjiu’s storage treasure and carried it to Nine Suns Island.
• Li Yuan gave Dongmang the antidote, and Dongmang recovered his strength and gained new insight into the Dao of Life.
• After returning Dongmang’s treasures, Li Yuan resumed cultivating and, as Beichen Star’s battles intensified, finally saw his World Dao undergo a drastic change.

After taking the first step on the World Dao, Li Yuan gained a clearer understanding of the world and successfully activated the Ancient Cosmic Realm, though its immense power drained him. The Source Seed then bloomed into the Cosmic Lotus Moon, giving him a powerful new weapon and a tool to analyze life as he prepared for the coming God King War.

• Li Yuan recognized flaws in his Star Arts, judged that his World Domain could suppress God King Chenmo, and flew back toward Yinhai City to refine the Gold Throne.
• Li Yuan’s second Source Body comprehended the Ancient Cosmic Realm’s Dao patterns and activated its origin, causing its inhabitants to see his radiant figure and kneel in awe.
• The Ancient Cosmic Realm’s power exhausted Li Yuan’s second Source Body, and he concluded that activating it with all three of his bodies could unleash a devastating single strike.
• Li Yuan sensed that the Source Seed had bloomed into the Cosmic Lotus Moon, which contained three-step mysteries of both the World Dao and the Myriad Spirits Dao.
• Li Yuan learned that the Cosmic Lotus Moon could create a formidable Black Lotus Domain and analyze life materials, strengthening his prospects in the coming God King War and his future cultivation of the Myriad Spirits Dao.

Li Yuan used the Cosmic Lotus to study life and the Myriad Spirits Dao, then received rare Life Materials from God King Dongmang to advance his research. As the Abyss Divine Court withdrew from the God King War, the Chaos Divine Court gathered more forces outside Beichen Star, leaving other powers wondering whether Li Yuan’s side would launch an attack.

• Li Yuan discovered that the Cosmic Lotus combined the World Dao and Myriad Spirits Dao imperfectly, then used it to analyze materials and observe cultivators’ life origins.
• Li Yuan discussed the Cosmic Lotus and the Myriad Spirits Dao with Xiao Mu, who explained how Li Yuan could combine its analysis with insight gained through his Inner Cosmic Realm.
• Li Yuan asked God King Dongmang to gather specimens from across the Divine Domain, and Dongmang arranged for races to be raised in small worlds without needlessly killing them.
• God King Dongmang gave Li Yuan thousands of Life Materials, including three drops of Emperor Realm blood, and Li Yuan began analyzing them with the Cosmic Lotus.
• The Abyss Divine Court’s God Kings decided to abandon the war and withdrew, while the Chaos Divine Court sent more God Kings to guard outside Beichen Star.

The Abyss Divine Court decided to fight the Chaos Divine Court after God King Canjian returned and revealed that he had mastered the secret of his Broken Sword. As Beichen Star’s thousand-year term neared its end, Li Yuan obtained the final Gansheng Undying Fruit and prepared for the coming battle, while the passage was due to open in ten days.

• God Monarch Moyun’s vote on joining the battle ended in a tie until God King Canjian arrived and agreed to fight, allowing the resolution to pass.
• Li Yuan learned that the Abyss Divine Court would answer the challenge and continued cultivating in Yinhai City.
• God Monarch Suihuan won the final Five Realms Void Stone and planned to give it to Li Yuan after leaving Beichen Star.
• Li Yuan seized the last Gansheng Undying Fruit and, with God King Dongmang, suppressed the eight God Kings who tried to encircle them.
• Li Yuan perfected the Chiyun God Spear and Hundong Divine Armor, then headed for Beichen Star as its passage neared opening.

Li Yuan gathered the Chaos Divine Court’s God Kings and used his authority to locate Beichen Star’s passage, then sealed its exit with his World Domain. After the Abyss Divine Court attacked, Li Yuan’s forces met them in battle.

• Li Yuan arrived outside Beichen Star and was appointed commander of the Chaos Divine Court’s twenty-eight God Kings.
• Li Yuan identified the passage’s location despite God King Shanrui’s failed deductions, and Heishi Palace moved to his chosen coordinates.
• The Beichen Star passage opened beneath Heishi Palace, and Li Yuan covered its exit with his World Domain while the other factions’ God Kings withdrew.
• God Monarch Moyun led the Abyss Divine Court’s army against Li Yuan after the passage cleared.
• God Monarch Moyun formed a Five Elements Great World and struck Li Yuan’s domain, and Li Yuan ordered the Chaos Divine Court to attack.

God Monarch Moyun and the Abyss Divine Court attacked the Chaos Divine Court at Beichen Star, while Li Yuan led a counter-siege against God King Mohai and his allies. God King Canjian ambushed Li Yuan with a damaged Emperor Weapon, badly injuring him and destabilizing his World Domain, as the battle turned in the Abyss Divine Court’s favor.

• God Monarch Moyun sent all five avatars to unleash the Five Elements Great World, overwhelming Li Yuan’s World Domain until Li Yuan ordered the Chaos Divine Court’s God Kings to attack and reinforce it.
• God King Mohai, God King Chenmo, and two other God Kings emerged from the Beichen Star passage, but Li Yuan’s forces surrounded them with several Peak God Kings and attacked.
• Li Yuan’s First Source Body joined the fight, strengthening the World Domain and striking God King Mohai, while Li Yuan waited for more of the Abyss Divine Court army to enter the Cosmic Lotus’s range.
• God Monarch Moyun and the Abyss Divine Court army went all out, forcing the Chaos Divine Court’s forces to retreat as one of Mohai’s allies was killed.
• God King Canjian suddenly ambushed Li Yuan with a broken Emperor Weapon, grievously wounding him and nearly collapsing his World Domain.
• God King Canjian revealed himself and praised Li Yuan’s talent, while Li Yuan recognized that Canjian had advanced his Dao toward the All Things Dao.

Li Yuan revealed the full power of the Cosmic Lotus and the Galaxy Nine Heavens Array, turning the battlefield against the Abyss Divine Court despite God King Canjian’s arrival. He declared that God King Canjian and God Monarch Moyun would be his next targets.

• God King Canjian revealed that he had evolved his Eternal Dao into the Top-tier All Things Dao and wielded a damaged Emperor Weapon, giving him God King Perfection-level strength.
• The Chaos Divine Court’s allies considered retreating, but Li Yuan ordered them to continue besieging God King Mohai while he handled God King Canjian.
• Li Yuan activated the Cosmic Lotus and the Galaxy Nine Heavens Array, unleashing the Nine Lotus Realm and crushing God Monarch Moyun’s Five Elements Great World.
• The Nine Lotus Realm suppressed the god kings of both courts, and God King Xueyan judged that Li Yuan was close to invincible among god kings within the domain.
• Li Yuan explained that he had held back to lure in the Abyss Divine Court’s army, then named God King Canjian and Demon Cloud as his targets.